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Sharp’s Multitouch New LCD Panel Can Go Up to 12 Inches (I Smell an Apple Multitouch Tablet)

Those manufacturers of multitouch devices of the high visual quality and resilience of the iPhone’s might have another option from Sharp. According to Impress, the LCD veterans have made a 3.5 inch, 480 x 320 screen, capable of multitouch. These can be made up to 12 inches in diagonal size. Perfect for a portable. Somehow,…

Hardware Unlock Explodes iPhone

Here’s a tip. If you’re not really skilled at hardware hacks, don’t try to hardware unlock your iPhone. If you accidentally touch the wrong thing or screw up, this will happen. The user says: “We were so happy, all the software part was done, so we started opening the iPhone. The antenna cover was a…

The Lobster is One Modular Crustacean

While many of the wrist/arm based multimedia devices are improving, none of them can hold a candle to Danillo Mangini’s Lobster. This oddly named prototype involves an LCD base unit about the size of an iPod Shuffle (or presumably a lobster tail) that straps on to your arm or wrist, but what sets the Lobster…

Apple to Sell Ringtones Bundled With Regular Songs?

The Post says they’ve got confirmation that Apple will start selling ringtones to iPhone users using iTunes. Although they couldn’t confirm pricing, they could say that you will probably be able to make any song you buy from iTunes into a ringtone. This means you can set each contact’s ringtone to a separate track from…

BMW Officially the First Car With Google Search

FROM JALOPNIK—BMW is the first car manufacturer to offer Google local search straight from the in-dash navigation system. This supplements their “send to car” from PC to GPS setup. Oh, Germany only, for the time being. More at Jalop. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/its-official-bmw-gets-google-local-search-and-its-avai-295626

Slashgear has a hands-on with the KU990 touchscreen phone and the LG KS20, the HSDPA WM6 Prada phone.

Japanese Robot Cat Provides Companionship, Nightmares

This is a commercial for a horrifying Japanese robotic kitty called Yume Neko Smile. It’s just like a real cat, except it won’t leave dead birds on your doorstep, won’t scratch up your furniture and doesn’t have a soul. Buy yours today! [Akihabara News]

Apple Balks at $5-Per-Show Demand, Gives NBC the Boot From iTunes

We reported earlier that NBC had decided not to renew its contract with Apple to sell their shows online. We thought that they might do something similar to Universal and do a short-term contract to keep their content up. No dice. Apparently, NBC wanted Apple to start charging a whopping $4.99 per episode for their…

HD DVD Press Conference, In Fast Forward

After yesterday’s Blu-ray press conference, Toshiba fired back…over the course of two very, very long hours. And by “fired back,” we really mean gave a bunch of presentations that were too long. So we’re giving you a fast forward version of the conference…that still feels a bit like slow-mo, but here is the meat of…

Sprint, Verizon 6700 Get Unofficial WM6 Updates

A forum member on PPCGeeks patched up a version of Windows Mobile 6—complete with HTC’s fancy home screen on the HTC Touch—for the aging Sprint and Verizon 6700 phones. It’s not compatible with the 6800 (the Sprint Mogul, which already has WM6), so don’t install it there. But if you want to get some extra…

Griffin’s Evolve is Perfect Wireless Sound System for Pool Parties

Griffin, winners of our Battlemodo Dock-off with their Amplifi, had us going “Ooh!” and “Aaah!” this afternoon at their latest sound-system, the Evolve. You can configure as many speakers to the dock as you want, simply by placing them on top of the dock briefly to add them to the network. All the details, plus…

First 360 View of the 300FPS Mystery Casio Exilim,

We just stopped by Casio’s booth to get our eyes on the new Exilim we told you about earlier today. Shooting a drool-worthy 60fps bursts and 300fps of VGA video, it’s a beefy camera—definitely heftier than my Rebel XTi (from what we could see through the glass). https://gizmodo.com/casios-exilim-cam-lets-you-shoot-300-frames-per-second-295491 Something you won’t see in the press…

Halo 3 Accessories, Messenger Kit Coming September 4

Those Xbox 360 Halo 3 accessories are all coming next week, and with it comes the Xbox 360 Messenger kit. The accessories are two controllers, one Master Chief and one Covenant Brute, and a limited edition Master Chief figurine by McFarlane toys. The Messenger Kit is that QWERTY keyboard add-on that lets you type without…

A Rocket That’ll Take Pictures Along Its Voyage For You

If you’ve always wanted to see the view from a skyward rocket, but lack the physical and mental prowess to be an astronaut, there are ways to get a really crappy approximation of the experience. One is by launching one of these Estes Astrovision Digital Video Rockets. It’s got a camera in the tip that…

Shure Busts Out $99 SE110 Earphones, Secretly Makes Them iPhone Friendly

UPDATED On the web page for Shure’s newly announced SE110 earphones, the new lowest rung of the successful SE line, the price is listed as $119. But according to a press release that came out today at IFA, these babies will cost $99 when they appear. It’s a very low stoop indeed for the makers…

Eyes-on, Yamaha NX-B02 Bluetooth Speaker

The Yamaha NX-BO2 provides wireless streaming audio from any Bluetooth-enabled device. Utilizing the Enhanced Data Rate standard, it provides the fastest Bluetooth 2.0 connection available. Powered by either A/C adapter or 4 AA batteries, we doubt it will rock your socks off, but Yamaha claims their 2x5W amplifications sounds pretty good. We’ll support the product…

Amazon’s DRM-Free MP3 Store Likely to Launch Mid-September

Amazon will probably launch its DRM-free music store in the next few weeks, according to sources in the New York Post, joining Wal-Mart and others in posing the first real threat to the iTunes Music hegemony. As Ars and others have reported, Amazon honcho Jeff Bezos adopted an MP3-only strategy so that the music Amazon…

Citywide Wi-Fi Turns Out To Be Impossible for Big Towns, Easy for Little Towns

They said it couldn’t be done… and they were totally freaking right. EarthLink is pulling the plug on its San Francisco Wi-Fi build-out, says the AP, while developers in Chicago and Houston are having similar crises of faith. Bizarrely, MuniWireless.com reports that currently 455 cities and counties are interested in building Wi-Fi projects, up from…

Eyes-on, Yamaha A-S2000 Stereo Amplifier

Screw THX, we’re rocking hi-fi baby! No, we were not sucked into a German time warp depositing us into IFA 1975. Yamaha is releasing a new high end stereo amplifier. The slick, retro aluminum front hides beefy “floating balanced” circuitry that separates and balances the path of the two audio channels for optimum signal clarity,…

Hitachi’s Big Blu-ray Announcement

At yesterday’s Blu-ray keynote, the BDA promised the press that Hitachi would be making a major Blu-ray announcement today. It got a few of us excited. After all, this is the company that is releasing the world’s first Blu-ray camcorder—whatever this device could be, it would be a potential milestone. https://gizmodo.com/blu-ray-conference-kicking-ass-putting-people-to-sle-295150 The announcement? It WAS…